Amazon

Europe's demand for cheap meat is been fed by an increasing demand for soya feed from the Amazon but it comes at a cost - deforestation

Water buffalo may not be the most pressing threat to the Amazon as a whole but on the river’s floodplain they are doing serious damage

Newspaper apologises for article that disputed 'peer-reviewed scientific evidence' that up to 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest is at risk from climate change

Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury’s have been praised for disclosing their ‘forest footprint’ but experts say that consumers are still not aware of the impact of their daily diet

Partnership between Brazil and Norway to prevent deforestation in the Amazon praised by US President Barack Obama

You can turn it into everything from fuel to plastics. But will the surge in demand for sugar end up having a serious environmental impact?

As economists and policymakers scramble to put a price on the stored carbon of rainforests, they could be missing the bigger (wetter) picture...

Despite the lack of traceability in the supply chain, the assurances of cattle producers that they are not involved in the illegal deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is apparently enough for Tesco, a letter to the Guardian reveals

Amazon indians have called for an insurrection against the Peruvian government, whose authority they say they no longer recognise.

Cattle ranchers bigger culprits in Amazon deforestation than soy farmers, new NGO study shows

A pioneering ethical fashion company is helping maintain traditional livelihoods and prevent deforestation in the Amazon, writes Matilda Lee

Bruce Parry on tree-bark trips, deforestation and lessons learnt from tribal living

Peter Bunyard on the battle against malaria, a fallen hero of the Colombian medical establishment and the mysterious fate of thousands of unique primates

Small, local initiatives are the best way to preserve tropical rainforests but are being ignored by governments, a new study has shown.

Cargill, the international agribusiness giant, has been forced to closed a soy-bean export terminal in the Amazon.

Scientists mapping the effects of deforestation in the Amazon are increasingly concerned that we are reaching a tipping point – when the forest will start to die back of its own accord and rain, currently generated by the Amazon forests, will stop falling, not just in neighbouring countries but as far afield as the United States and South Africa.